October 9 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on October 9

Born	Writer	Known as
1984	Marie Kondo	Japanese organizing consultant, author, and television show host
1976	William Alexander (author)	American writer and academic (born 1976)
1966	Christopher Östlund	Swedish publisher
1955	Linwood Boomer	Canadian-American television producer, writer, and actor
1952	Sharon Osbourne	English and American television personality, music manager, and author (born 1952)
1951	Robert Wuhl	American actor, comedian and writer (born 1951)
1943	Mike Peters (cartoonist)	American cartoonist
1934	Jill Ker Conway	Australian-American scholar and author (1934-2018)
1933	Bill Tidy	British cartoonist (1933–2023)
1921	Michel Boisrond	French film director and screenwriter (1921–2002)
1921	Tadeusz Różewicz	Polish poet, playwright, writer, and translator (1921–2014)
1920	Jens Bjørneboe	Norwegian writer (1920–1976)
1918	E. Howard Hunt	American intelligence officer and author (1918–2007)
1915	Belva Plain	American writer (1915–2010)
1908	Harry Hooton	Australian poet and anarchist
1906	Léopold Sédar Senghor	First president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theorist (1906–2001)
1899	Bruce Catton	U.S. historian, author, and journalist (1899–1978)
1898	Tawfiq al-Hakim	Egyptian writer (1898–1987)
1893	Mário de Andrade	Brazilian writer, musicologist and photographer (1893–1945)
1892	Ivo Andrić	Yugoslav writer and Nobel laureate (1892–1975)
1877	Gopabandhu Das	Indian writer (1877–1928)
1874	Nicholas Roerich	Russian painter, writer, archaeologist and philosopher (1874–1947)
1863	Edward Bok	Dutch-born American editor and writer (1863–1930)
1823	Mary Ann Shadd	American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher, lawyer

Writers who died on October 9

Died	Writer	Known as
2015	Ravindra Jain	Indian composer, lyricist and playback singer
2014	Carolyn Kizer	American writer (1925–2014)
2013	Edmund Niziurski	Polish writer (1925–2013)
2009	Stuart M. Kaminsky	American novelist
2009	John Daido Loori	American Buddhist writer (1931–2009)
2003	Carolyn Gold Heilbrun	American writer and professor
1996	Walter Kerr	American writer and theatre critic
1989	Yusuf Atılgan	Turkish novelist (1921–1989)
1989	Penny Lernoux	American writer and journalist (1940–1989)
1987	Clare Boothe Luce	American author and politician (1903–1987)
1975	Noon Meem Rashid	Pakistani poet (1910–1975)
1967	André Maurois	French author (1885–1967)
1924	Valery Bryusov	Russian poet (1873–1924)
1906	Henriette Wulfsberg	Norwegian school owner and writer (1843–1906)
1729	Richard Blackmore	English poet and physician
1613	Henry Constable	English poet (1562–1613)

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Marie Kondo (1984) — Marie Kondo , also known as Konmari (こんまり), is a Japanese organizing consultant, author, and TV presenter.

William Alexander (author) (1976) — William Joseph Alexander is an American writer and academic. He is an adjunct professor in liberal arts at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, located in Montpelier, Vermont.

Christopher Östlund (1966) — Christopher Östlund is the publisher of Plaza Magazine International, a magazine in the field of fashion, interior and design.

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